But the influence is modest, because spending on oil and its derivatives makes up only a small part of the nation’s economic activity. Rising gas prices also make Americans less confident in the nation’s economic prospects and less approving of political leaders, according to public opinion surveys.

From Post Carbon Institute) In 2008 the U.S. What if the decades-long era of economic growth based on ever-increasing rates of resource extraction, manufacturing, and consumption is over, finished, and done? We have reached the end of economic growth as we have known it. That’s one kind of economic efficiency. Always.

This not only affects people, but also nature and the planet. And when the peoples organize themselves, or rise against oppression, those minority groups call for violence, weapons, and even military intervention from other countries. Other peoples were here before us! We all need everybody else. 44 No.

In 2008, Beijing pulled off what some (myself included) considered a miracle: banishing choking smog to reveal an Olympic city bathing in blue. new study finds that weather contributed as much as the Chinese governments smog-busting measures to the citys relatively clean air during the 2008 Olympics. 2008 December. Mother Jones.
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As richer economies struggle to recover from the financial crisis of 2008–09, poorer countries are facing high food prices and rising youth unemployment. Meanwhile, growing income inequality and environmental disruption are challenging conventional notions of economic health. The global economy grew 3.8 percent in 2011, a drop from 5.2
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People Power. In just two months, the Occupy movement has begun to unseat an economic narrative that held sway for thirty years. Across the world, for years, millions of people challenged this elite-driven and elite-benefiting “Washington Consensus.” Habits of Highly Empathetic People. Subscribe. and get a FREE Issue.
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This Nature Longread essay first appeared in SNAP Magazine , which features great writing on the intersection of nature and human well-being as part of the website of the Science for Nature and People (SNAP) collaboration. And it could refer to food that has some characteristic reminding people of what they think of as home. 2008).
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People Power. We’ve finally learned that a growing financial sector isn’t the same thing as actual economic improvement. When market advocates go on to argue, however, that the solution for market failure is to get government out of the way, they demonstrate remarkable ignorance of basic market economics. Subscribe. Renew.
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